Combined pick and reed-hook.



No.657,608. Q Patented Sept. ll, I900. B. W. MAREK.

COMBINED PICK AND REED HOOK.

(Annlication'flkd Feb. 6, 1900.1

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RUDOLPH w. MAREK, or SUMMIT, NEW JERSEY.

COMBINED PICK AND REED-HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 657,608, dated September 11, 1960.

Application filed February 5, 1900. Serial No. 4,136. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, RUDOLPH W. MAREK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Summit, in the county of Union and State of New Jersey, have invented a certain new and useful Combined Pick and Reed-Hook, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is an outline View of the device as a whole, the same showing the edges of the body members of the pick proper, a portion of the reed-hook proper being shown in section to better illustrate the construction. Fig. 2 is a side view of the device as it appears when turned ninety degrees from the position it occupies in Fig. 1.

Similar reference-letters denote like parts in each view of the drawings.

This invention relates to improvements in devices of that class commonly known as combined pick and reed-hooks, the same being utilized by weavers of textile fabrics for the purpose of recovering and controlling broken wefts or threads and in loosening and removing tufts of foreign substances that may have been woven into the cloth or fabric. Its object is to provideacombined pick and reedhook for use by weavers of textile fabrics which shall be simple and cheap as regards construction, which may be readily availed of by the user for the purposes for which it is designed, and which shall possess advantages over other and analogous devices.

The invention consists in providing means whereby the pick proper and the reed-hook proper may be separately availed of for service or may be combined and used as a single device all at the pleasure of the user.

Having reference to the accompanying drawings, the pick proper comprises a body portion A, of any desired shape or contour in cross-section, parallel resilient arms or jaws B B, a shank 0, provided with male threads, and a pointed extension D, all formed integral by preference from steel or other suitable material. The free ends of the jaws B B are normallyseparated to the end that said jaws may have utility after the manner of pincers in the removal of tufts of foreign substances which may have found their way into the cloth or fabric in the process of weaving,

and this either before or after the said tufts shall have been loosened, as through the medium of the pointed extension D, for which purpose the latter is designed.

E denotes the reed-hook proper, of any desired shape or contour in cross-section and formed from steel or other suitable material. By preference the reed-hook E is given a continuously-tapering form from its butt-end to its point end, is given an easy bend or curve somewhat near its point end, as shown in Fig. 1, and is further provided at its point end with a slot or recess e. The butt-end of the reed-hook E is hollowed out to form a recess F, in the walls of which are formed female threads adapted to engage the male threads of the shank O. This construction permits a firm junction of the reed-hook proper with the pick proper and at the same time allows the former to be readily detached from the latter. The recess e at the point end of the reed-hook proper is designed for engagement of wefts and the like used in weaving textile fabrics.

In practice the extension D may be used in loosening tufts of foreign substances which may be found in the woven fabric or cloth. The resilient jaws of the pick proper may be utilized as pincers in this same connection, and the reed-hook proper may be used for recovering broken wefts and for like purposes. When the pick proper and the reed-hook proper are assembled, as shown in Fig. l of the drawings, the former serves as a handle for the latter.

Obviously the construction may be altered to some extent Without departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is Y 1. A device of the class described comprising a body portion, as A, having a pointed extension, a reed-hook, as E, and means for attaching said reed-hook to the pointed-extension end of said bodyportioni 2. A device of the class described compris-' ing a body portion, as A, having resilient jaws at one end and a pointed extension at the other end, a reed-hook, as E, and means for attaching said reed-hook to the pointedextension end of said body portion.

3. A device ef meclass desex ihed Qxtenfion, and a curved need-hdok, to ing a bodypertion, as A, having resilient; as: E, the Iatterhellow 'and iknteli'iorl'y threadjaws, an exteriorly-threaded shank and a ed at its butt-end to screw onto said shank,

pointed extension, and a. reed-hook, as. E, the and provided with a. recess at its. point end.

5 latter hollow and interiorly threaded at its 7 butt-end to screw-onto; said enank. o 7 RUDOLPH MAREK' .4. A device ofthe class described eomprisvvi'tlnesses'z ing a bodyportion, as A, having resilient EDWD. B. KELLY,

jaws, an exteriorly threaded shank, and; a; 303111 3 WQHNQUTKA. 

